| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Coxon Fund by Henry James: show him to-night! However, if he HAD lectured he'd have lectured
divinely. It would just have been his talk."
"And what would his talk just have been?"
I was conscious of some ineffectiveness, as well perhaps as of a
little impatience, as I replied: "The exhibition of a splendid
intellect." My young lady looked not quite satisfied at this, but
as I wasn't prepared for another question I hastily pursued: "The
sight of a great suspended swinging crystal--huge lucid lustrous, a
block of light--flashing back every impression of life and every
possibility of thought!"
This gave her something to turn over till we had passed out to the
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Cromwell by William Shakespeare: Were he and his tongue in this speaker's head,
Alive he wins me not; then, tis no conquest dead.
[Enter Cromwell like a Neopolitan, and Hodge with him.]
CROMWELL.
Sir, are you the master of the house?
HOST.
I am, sir.
CROMWELL.
By this same token you must leave this place,
And leave none but the Earl and I together,
And this my Peasant here to tend on us.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Herbert West: Reanimator by H. P. Lovecraft: -- surely not uncommon on a battlefield, but distinctly uncommon
in an hospital. Dr. West’s reanimated specimens were not meant
for long existence or a large audience. Besides human tissue,
West employed much of the reptile embryo tissue which he had cultivated
with such singular results. It was better than human material
for maintaining life in organless fragments, and that was now
my friend’s chief activity. In a dark corner of the laboratory,
over a queer incubating burner, he kept a large covered vat full
of this reptilian cell-matter; which multiplied and grew puffily
and hideously.
On the night of which I speak we had a splendid
Herbert West: Reanimator |
